different between value vs moment

English

Alternative forms

• valew (in the sense of “valour”)

Etymology

From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value , feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin val?re (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“to be strong”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l'?, IPA^(key): /?vælju?/
• Hyphenation: val?ue
• Rhymes: -ælju?

Noun

value (countable and uncountable, plural values)

1. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

   Synonym: worth
2. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
3. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.

   He does not share his parents' values.

   family values
4. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
   • 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy

     An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
5. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.

6. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
   • 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design

     When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.

   • 2010, Rose Edin and ?Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light

     Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.

7. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.

8. Precise meaning; import.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece

     Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic

9. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.

10. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

    • My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.

11. (obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.

    • And him with equall valew countervayld

Synonyms

• valence

Hyponyms

• added value
• economic value
• face value
• intrinsic value
• lvalue
• market value
• note value
• par value
• rvalue
• time value

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)

1. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.

2. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
3. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.

4. To hold dear.

Synonyms

• appreciate
• assess
• esteem
• prize
• rate
• respect
• treasure
• valuate
• worthen

Antonyms

• belittle
• derogate
• despise
• disesteem
• disrespect

Translations

See also

• value system

References

• value at OneLook Dictionary Search
• value in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• value in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• value in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• uveal

French

Verb

value

1. feminine singular of the past participle of valoir

English

Etymology

From Middle English moment, from Old French moment, from Latin m?mentum. Doublet of momentum and movement.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mo?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: mo?ment

Noun

moment (countable and uncountable, plural moments)

1. A brief, unspecified amount of time.

   Synonyms: stound, instant, trice
2. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
3. (figuratively) Weight or importance.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard III, 3,7,67:

     In deep designs, in matter of great moment, / No less importing than our general good.

   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Second Stain, (Norton 2005, p.1192)

     The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment.

4. (physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.

   Synonym: moment of force

5. (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
6. (neurology, informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
7. (colloquial) A fit; a brief tantrum.
8. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
9. (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

Derived terms

See also

• torque

Translations

References

• 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v 3 p 3174. ("The smallest portion of time; an instant." is a direct quote from this Dictionary.)

Further reading

• moment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• montem

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mo?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mu?men/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment (specific instant or time)

Derived terms

• de moment
• momentet

Further reading

• “moment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “moment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “moment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “moment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mom?nt]

Noun

moment m

1. moment (specific instant or time)

Related terms

• See motiv

Further reading

• moment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• moment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch moment, from Middle French moment, from Latin momentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: mo?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

moment n (plural momenten, diminutive momentje n)

1. moment (very brief period of time)

   Synonym: ogenblik

2. (physics) moment of force, moment

   Synonym: krachtmoment

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: moment
• ? Indonesian: momen

French

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.m??/

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment (point in time)
2. moment (short period of time)
3. a while

4. (physics, mechanics) moment, momentum

Derived terms

See also

• instant

Further reading

• “moment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment, instant

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin momentum, from movere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??m?nt/

Noun

moment n (definite singular momentet, indefinite plural moment, definite plural momenta)

1. element, variable, contributing factor or circumstance

2. (physics) moment of force

References

• “moment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment

Polish

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.m?nt/

Noun

moment m inan (diminutive momencik)

1. (physics) moment

   moment bezw?adno?ci – moment of inertia

   moment gn?cy / moment zginaj?cy – bending moment

   moment p?du – angular momentum, moment of momentum

   moment si?y – moment of force

   moment skr?caj?cy – twisting moment

2. moment, a short period of time

   Synonym: chwila

Declension

Derived terms

• momentalny
• momentami

Further reading

• moment in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• moment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French moment, from Latin momentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mo?ment]

Noun

moment n (plural momente)

1. moment (brief period of time) (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

See also

• clip?
• secund?